Clothes-boiler



UNITED STATES NATHAN BUBENSTEIN, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-BUTLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1920.

Application led March 2S, 1919. Serial No. 285,748.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN RUBENSTEIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York in the county of New York and State of i ew York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Boilers,of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention relates to wash boilers and more especially to clothesstrainers to be used in connection therewith and its object is toprovide the boiler with a false bottom adapted to be elevated to raisethe clothes toward the surface of the water in the boiler so they may beremoved without difficulty and certain portable means are providedcarrying said bottom and the elevating means which may be readily placedin position or removed, as will be more fully set forth in the followingspecification, specified in the claims and illustrated in the drawings,wherein:

Figure l is a vertical longitudinal sectionalwiew of a wash boilershowing the device applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one end of the same.

In the use of wash boilers great difficulty has been experienced inplacing soiled clothes therein or removing and draining thel same onaccount of the location of the boiler on a hot stove and of the boilingwa ter in the vessel and the difficulty of lifting the washed clothesfrom the interior of the boiler, especially when there are few clothesin much water.

Various attempts have been made to overcome these diiculties but theinventions have been permanent attachments that make the boiler anexpensive device and when slightly worn or leaking will require thediscarding of the whole machine.

The presentinvention may be applied to any wash boiler or removed andreplaced on another and consists of saddles 5 of a shape conforming withthe ends of the boiler 6 and having uprights 7 with bearings 8 at theirouter ends.

The lower ends 9 of the uprights are bifurcated and welded or otherwisesecured to the inner sides of the saddles 5 Awhile the bearings 8 carrya shaft l0 with a winch 11 at one end and a ratchet wheel 12 near theother end and whose teeth are engaged by the pawl 13. Pins 14 may beprovided to enter appropriate holes in the shaft to ad just the distanceapart of the saddles so that the device-may be arranged for any sizeboiler' and pins 15 are also provided and over which may be hung chains16 whose ends are secured to loops 17 at the extremities of rods 18 onwhich are located slats 19 and spacing spools 20, the whole making aframe that is a false bottom and is a strainer and may rest on thebottom of the boiler or be hung a slight distance above the same whilethe boiling of the clothes is in progress.

If desired, the saddles with the shaft may be removed and set aside sothat the depositing of the clothes in the boiler may not interfere withthe work and when it is dcsired to remove them the winch is turned andthe chains 16 are wound upon the shaft and the frame slowly moved towardthe top of the boiler and above the water. The clothes may now beremoved singly therefrom or the whole device lifted ofi' the boiler withthe clothes on the frame, or as the pawl 13 engages the teeth of theratchet wheel 12 it locks the shaft in the desired position and theclothes with the false bottom may be left suspended above the surface ofthe water to drain until it is found desirable to dry them, or a paddlemay be used on them to squeeze the water therefrom.

When the operation is over the saddles may be removed and the wholedevice stored in the boiler or when any part is injured or broken it maybe easily removed and replaced with a new one.

It is obvious that the parts may be other wise arranged withoutdeparting from the essential features above described or from the scopeof the appended claims.

What I claim as new is:

` 1. In clothes boilers, the combination of a boiler, removablereinforcing saddles comprising a semi-circular plate with a flangeenveloping the upper edges of the ends of said boiler, a shaft journaledin the saddles, a slatted false bottom in the boiler, chains from thesides of the said bottom and adapted to be wound about the shaft, and aratchet wheel and pawl for the shaft.

2. In clothes boilers, the combination of a boiler, removablereinforcing saddles oomprising a plate and overhanging ange conformingwith and fitting over the upper ends and inside of the boiler,extensions above the saddles, a shaft journaled in the kextensions andhaving a crank arm, a false bottom comprising slats strung o11 crossrods, Chains secured on the ends of tho rods and adapted to be Woundabout the shaft, 10 a ratchet wheel 011 the shaft, and a pawl on thevextension.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. NATHAN RUBENS'I EIN.

